视觉表示学习是解决各种视力问题的关键。依靠开创性的网格结构先验，卷积神经网络（CNN）已成为大多数深视觉模型的事实上的标准架构。例如，经典的语义分割方法通常采用带有编码器编码器体系结构的完全横向卷积网络（FCN）。编码器逐渐减少了空间分辨率，并通过更大的接受场来学习更多抽象的视觉概念。由于上下文建模对于分割至关重要，因此最新的努力一直集中在通过扩张（即极度）卷积或插入注意力模块来增加接受场。但是，基于FCN的体系结构保持不变。在本文中，我们旨在通过将视觉表示学习作为序列到序列预测任务来提供替代观点。具体而言，我们部署纯变压器以将图像编码为一系列贴片，而无需局部卷积和分辨率减少。通过在变压器的每一层中建立的全球环境，可以学习更强大的视觉表示形式，以更好地解决视力任务。特别是，我们的细分模型（称为分割变压器（SETR））在ADE20K上擅长（50.28％MIOU，这是提交当天测试排行榜中的第一个位置），Pascal环境（55.83％MIOU），并在CityScapes上达到竞争成果。此外，我们制定了一个分层局部全球（HLG）变压器的家族，其特征是窗户内的本地关注和跨窗户的全球性专注于层次结构和金字塔架构。广泛的实验表明，我们的方法在各种视觉识别任务（例如，图像分类，对象检测和实例分割和语义分割）上实现了吸引力的性能。

从消息传递机制中受益，图形神经网络（GNN）在图形数据上的繁荣任务上已经成功。但是，最近的研究表明，攻击者可以通过恶意修改图形结构来灾难性地降低GNN的性能。解决此问题的直接解决方案是通过在两个末端节点的成对表示之间学习度量函数来建模边缘权重，该指标函数试图将低权重分配给对抗边缘。现有方法使用监督GNN学到的原始功能或表示形式来对边缘重量进行建模。但是，两种策略都面临着一些直接问题：原始特征不能代表节点的各种特性（例如结构信息），而受监督的GNN学到的表示可能会遭受分类器在中毒图上的差异性能。我们需要携带特征信息和尽可能糊状的结构信息并且对结构扰动不敏感的表示形式。为此，我们提出了一条名为stable的无监督管道，以优化图形结构。最后，我们将精心设计的图输入到下游分类器中。对于这一部分，我们设计了一个高级GCN，可显着增强香草GCN的鲁棒性，而不会增加时间复杂性。在四个现实世界图基准上进行的广泛实验表明，稳定的表现优于最先进的方法，并成功防御各种攻击。

最近的作品表明，经过非结构化单图像收集训练的3D感知gan可以生成新颖实例的多视图像。实现此目的的关键基础是3D辐射场发电机和卷渲染过程。但是，由于神经量渲染的高计算成本，现有方法无法生成高分辨率图像（例如，最高256x256），或者依靠2D CNN来进行图像空间上采样，从而危害了不同视图的3D一致性。本文提出了一种新颖的3D感知gan，可以产生高分辨率图像（最高1024x1024），同时保持严格的3D一致性，如音量渲染。我们的动机是直接在3D空间中实现超分辨率，以保持3D一致性。我们通过在最近的生成辐射歧管（GRAM）方法中定义的一组2D辐射歧管上应用2D卷积，避免了原本高昂的计算成本，并应用专门的损失函数以高分辨率进行有效的GAN训练。 FFHQ和AFHQV2数据集的实验表明，我们的方法可以产生高质量的3D一致性结果，从而大大胜过现有方法。

While class activation map (CAM) generated by image classification network has been widely used for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) and semantic segmentation (WSSS), such classifiers usually focus on discriminative object regions. In this paper, we propose Contrastive learning for Class-agnostic Activation Map (C$^2$AM) generation only using unlabeled image data, without the involvement of image-level supervision. The core idea comes from the observation that i) semantic information of foreground objects usually differs from their backgrounds; ii) foreground objects with similar appearance or background with similar color/texture have similar representations in the feature space. We form the positive and negative pairs based on the above relations and force the network to disentangle foreground and background with a class-agnostic activation map using a novel contrastive loss. As the network is guided to discriminate cross-image foreground-background, the class-agnostic activation maps learned by our approach generate more complete object regions. We successfully extracted from C$^2$AM class-agnostic object bounding boxes for object localization and background cues to refine CAM generated by classification network for semantic segmentation. Extensive experiments on CUB-200-2011, ImageNet-1K, and PASCAL VOC2012 datasets show that both WSOL and WSSS can benefit from the proposed C$^2$AM.

3D感知图像生成建模旨在生成具有明确可控相机姿势的3D一致图像。最近的作品通过在非结构化的2D图像上培训神经辐射场（NERF）发电机，但仍然无法产生具有精细细节的高度现实图像。一个关键原因是体积表示学习的高记忆和计算成本大大限制了训练期间辐射集成的点样本的数量。不足的采样不仅限制了发电机的表现力，以处理细节细节，而且由于不稳定的蒙特卡罗采样引起的噪音，因此阻碍了有效的GaN训练。我们提出了一种新的方法，调节点采样和辐射场地学习在2D歧管上，体现为3D音量中的一组学习隐式表面。对于每个观看射线，我们计算射线表面交叉点并累积由网络产生的亮度。通过培训和渲染如此光辉的歧管，我们的发电机可以产生具有现实细节和强大的视觉3D一致性的高质量图像。

最近的大规模预训练的进步，例如GPT-3允许从给定提示生成看似高质量的文本。然而，这种一代系统经常遭受幻觉的事实问题，并且本身并不是旨在包含有用的外部信息。接地的代表似乎提供了补救措施，但他们的培训通常依赖于提供信息相关文件的很少可用的并行数据。我们提出了一个框架，通过在语言模型信号上共同训练接地的发生器和文档检索来缓解这种数据约束。该模型学会奖励具有生成中最高效用的文档的检索，并用专家混合（MOE）合并来术语术，以产生后续文本。我们证明，发电机和猎犬都可以利用这种联合培训，协同作用，以生产散文和对话一代中的更多信息和相关文本。

Most recent semantic segmentation methods adopt a fully-convolutional network (FCN) with an encoderdecoder architecture. The encoder progressively reduces the spatial resolution and learns more abstract/semantic visual concepts with larger receptive fields. Since context modeling is critical for segmentation, the latest efforts have been focused on increasing the receptive field, through either dilated/atrous convolutions or inserting attention modules. However, the encoder-decoder based FCN architecture remains unchanged. In this paper, we aim to provide an alternative perspective by treating semantic segmentation as a sequence-to-sequence prediction task. Specifically, we deploy a pure transformer (i.e., without convolution and resolution reduction) to encode an image as a sequence of patches. With the global context modeled in every layer of the transformer, this encoder can be combined with a simple decoder to provide a powerful segmentation model, termed SEgmentation TRansformer (SETR). Extensive experiments show that SETR achieves new state of the art on ADE20K (50.28% mIoU), Pascal Context (55.83% mIoU) and competitive results on Cityscapes. Particularly, we achieve the first position in the highly competitive ADE20K test server leaderboard on the day of submission.

We present a large, tunable neural conversational response generation model, DIALOGPT (dialogue generative pre-trained transformer). Trained on 147M conversation-like exchanges extracted from Reddit comment chains over a period spanning from 2005 through 2017, DialoGPT extends the Hugging Face PyTorch transformer to attain a performance close to human both in terms of automatic and human evaluation in single-turn dialogue settings. We show that conversational systems that leverage DialoGPT generate more relevant, contentful and context-consistent responses than strong baseline systems. The pre-trained model and training pipeline are publicly released to facilitate research into neural response generation and the development of more intelligent opendomain dialogue systems.

In contrast to the control-theoretic methods, the lack of stability guarantee remains a significant problem for model-free reinforcement learning (RL) methods. Jointly learning a policy and a Lyapunov function has recently become a promising approach to ensuring the whole system with a stability guarantee. However, the classical Lyapunov constraints researchers introduced cannot stabilize the system during the sampling-based optimization. Therefore, we propose the Adaptive Stability Certification (ASC), making the system reach sampling-based stability. Because the ASC condition can search for the optimal policy heuristically, we design the Adaptive Lyapunov-based Actor-Critic (ALAC) algorithm based on the ASC condition. Meanwhile, our algorithm avoids the optimization problem that a variety of constraints are coupled into the objective in current approaches. When evaluated on ten robotic tasks, our method achieves lower accumulated cost and fewer stability constraint violations than previous studies.

A storyboard is a roadmap for video creation which consists of shot-by-shot images to visualize key plots in a text synopsis. Creating video storyboards however remains challenging which not only requires association between high-level texts and images, but also demands for long-term reasoning to make transitions smooth across shots. In this paper, we propose a new task called Text synopsis to Video Storyboard (TeViS) which aims to retrieve an ordered sequence of images to visualize the text synopsis. We construct a MovieNet-TeViS benchmark based on the public MovieNet dataset. It contains 10K text synopses each paired with keyframes that are manually selected from corresponding movies by considering both relevance and cinematic coherence. We also present an encoder-decoder baseline for the task. The model uses a pretrained vision-and-language model to improve high-level text-image matching. To improve coherence in long-term shots, we further propose to pre-train the decoder on large-scale movie frames without text. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed model significantly outperforms other models to create text-relevant and coherent storyboards. Nevertheless, there is still a large gap compared to human performance suggesting room for promising future work.